A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Machine Learning Department is working on a system to protect computer networks from security assaults using a yeast cell’s protection system against environmental threats as a basis. Ziv Bar-Joseph, an associate professor in CMU’s Machine Learning Department and the Ray and

This week, Dataconomy will be covering the events, meetups and talks around the world for Big Data Week. Below are the events happening in your city today! May 5, 2014 – Nova Scotia Kentville Agricultural Centre Seminar Series The Kentville Agricultural Centre Seminar Series is presented to increase awareness of research

May 7, 2014 – London Big Data and NoSQL: the cross-over As part of Big Data Week London NoSQL is hosting a meet-up will – we’ll be exploring three key points in which big data and NoSQL cross-over. May 7, 2014 – Nova Scotia Lunch n’ Learn in Cape Breton An informal

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the India cloud-computing market is expected to grow from its $688 million value in 2012 to $3.5 billion by 2016. Ricky Kapur, Google Enterprise Asia’s managing director, sees huge opportunities for growth in the Indian market, saying that “India is home to around

Remi Mollicone is the Chairman of CFAR-m. CFAR-m is an original method of aggregation based on neural networks which can summarize with objectivity, the information contained in a large number of complex variables. CFAR-m solves the major problem of fixing the subjective importance of each variable in the aggregation (It avoids

The World Bank Group and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), are trying to harness big data’s potential to support national education systems, with their recently launched ‘Systems Approach for Better Education Results’ initiative, which collects and shares comparative data on educational policies and institutions from countries

In emerging markets that are not highly digitalized, small data has largely become the information backbone for data analytics. Paper-based data and social media reports on the field are the first step for companies active in markets in the developing world “Companies need analytics to cope with these new markets,

Hadoop store software company Cloudera and leading NoSQL database MongoDB have announced a strategic all-round product partnership to better serve their converging clienteles. MongoDB’s Product Marketing Director Kelly Stirman said in a statement: “We have an enormous overlap in our customer bases”. The first fruit of the partnership is the

SAN DIEGO, CA – Dealstruck, Inc, selected as the exclusive crowdlending partner to demo at FinovateSpring 2014, April 29-30 in San Jose, today unveiled two new products. The first product is an application programming interface (API) for institutional investors, which provides them with the raw data for every deal presented on

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